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Michal Rozworski
Michal Rozworski is a researcher at the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and a CCPA-BC research associate. He publishes frequently on Canadian political economy and is the co-author, with Leigh Phillips, of The People’s Republic of Walmart. Follow Michal on Twitter
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No plan, big problem
The pandemic response is showing that undermining state planning capacity for four decades has resulted in states with low planning capacity. Who could have expected this?
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Canadian billionaires’ wealth skyrocketing amid the pandemic
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Mind the gap: Losses in international student tuition shouldn’t lead to teacher layoffs
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended public education around the world, touching every facet of school life. In British Columbia, while some students cautiously returned to…
The roots of our housing crisis: Austerity, debt and extreme speculation
We’re now 10 years on from the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Or, as our national mythology puts it, 10 years since Canada…
How BC is short-changing schools and how we can fix it
Students using 30-year-old textbooks, teachers buying basic supplies, schools permanently on edge of closing—this is the all too common face of public education in British…
Media get it wrong on Bank of Canada minimum wage study
Over a million workers in Ontario just got a big raise thanks to tireless, bottom-up organizing, but to hear the media tell it, this is…
Don’t bank on TD’s $15 minimum wage impact forecast
Business in skewed economic assessments of Ontario’s move to a $15 per hour minimum wage has been brisk this week.
They huff and they puff: More overblown claims about a $15 minimum wage
Another week, another business lobby report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019. Actually,…
Fraser Institute cries wolf over Ontario’s $15 minimum wage
By Sheila Block and Michal Rozworski Each week, it seems, we see a new report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to…
5 reasons to be skeptical of Keep Ontario Working’s “risk” analysis of Bill 148 and $15 minimum wage
Keep Ontario Working (KOW), a coalition of business groups, has released its analysis of Bill 148, the legislation that will increase the minimum wage in…